February 17, 2009

"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O Cruel, needless misunderstanding. O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast..."

ricpic said:

Oscar Wilde lives! Sans wit. Sans soul. Sans everything.

Love all that literariness, but Psychedelic George hits what I was searching for:

88 comments:

"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O Cruel, needless misunderstanding. O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast..."

I don't think that I looked all that much different back then, or at least a year or two earlier. Since then, my hair has gone light gray, and is cut a lot shorter. Sideburns and mustache are also much better trimmed. But overall, a lot of us looked like Axelrod back then.

With Plouffe and Obama, they out-thought, out-organized, out-financed, and were always two steps ahead of the hapless McCain/Goddess of the Right Wing ticket...and whipped Hillary, except only when her dying corpse made a comeback when it didn't matter. They had the delegates locked up and were celebrating. Hillary whips Obama in PA!! - Whooppee-Do, Axelrod thought..it was a signed, sealed nomination for Obama by then.

The Republicans sorely need a few guys like Axlerod - almost as direly as they need new ideas.

Host,I read that article too. Their manipulation of the media is awesome. I guess if he has a disabled daughter, we better not criticize him or wonder why it's okay for him to speak on policy but it was evil when Rove did it.

In 1975, the poses and the ideals were identical. You could accurately judge someone's political sympathies by the length of their hair.....What I remember about long hair was how long it took to dry. It just wasn't worth the trouble, and I cut it off. Same with many of my political views of that era. I'm not so sure about David Axelrod. I think he still harbors admiration and respect for Huey Newton.

Axelrod is a near genius.He directly attacked the Republicans weak point.The 8% vote swing among upper middle class whites who supported and wanted to finish the good work of an Atlanta native named King (who had taken the new name of Martin Luther as a sign of his life's goal of the reformation of the racial apartheid years from 1865 to 1965). Axelrod has created Obama's reign, but like the good Dr. Frankenstein, Axelrod has no continued control over his brilliant work product.

George, you got me. I was just thinking that I lived through that era and never once felt compelled to emulate the fashion choices of Three Dog Night. Having said that, they made some very good recordings. I also escaped from the late seventies without ever looking like Stevie Nicks; the same cannot be said for the eighties. I'm certain I still have that electric blue silk suit from Duran Duran's designer in storage.

Time Magazine is a well known practitioner of the principle that if media ignores something, than it does not exist. As corollary to the rule that all publicity is good publicity, there is the rule that no publicity is bad publicity. May be Axelrod serves as part time advisor to the Time editorial board. These guys are good fighters. The repubs need a Gen Patton type tough enough to seek victory now and worry about what the media says later. Sarah Palin???

The suggestion that Axelrod is a political genius is historical revisionism. He ran an awful campaign; Obama won because a) the main stream media was completely on his side, b) Hillary ran an arrogant poor campaign and b) McCain ran an awful campaign. I'll stunned McCain got as many votes as he did!

I think I could run a pretty fucking good campaign if the media decided they weren't going to cover my candidate's numerous fuck-ups. But yeah, put him in the hall of fame for bottom-feeding political operatives.

Oh, you mean the same Time Rag that had Obamination appear on their cover 14 times, last year alone? Counting sky box the number rises to 25. No media bias there, nah, just keep moving along folks nothing to see here.

I have mindless knee-jerk loathing for anything Obama. Let's just call it payback for eight years of mindless knee-jerk Bush hating. And you know something? It's rather liberating detesting someone no matter what. Now I can project all my bad moods on to someone who can never, no matter what he does, be good enough for me. Why? Just because it feels so good.

Richard said..."I have mindless knee-jerk loathing for anything Obama. Let's just call it payback for eight years of mindless knee-jerk Bush hating. And you know something? It's rather liberating detesting someone no matter what. Now I can project all my bad moods on to someone who can never, no matter what he does, be good enough for me. Why? Just because it feels so good."

Anyone who would venture to a website where he disagrees with everyone and is generally disliked needs to get a life. We'll work on basic social skills after that. And maybe, one day, we can get to wit, or something that approaches it. I highly doubt that, though.

Detesting Axelrod's victory is a reaction. We need to take a stategic action of our own to end run the Image of Obama as a noble Black hero who loves everyone. He is an incompetant figurehead who will negotiate for anything offered to him with no principle that guards America from anything. His only goal is selling off American wealth and power to the first offer he recieves. He is a super-Blago who sees much less value in the American way of life than the talented Ex-Gov Blago. He will never let Americans continue to cling to our Guns and Religion, unless we make him a higher offer than George Soros has made him. Expose this truth, by free speech, until Chris Mathews begins to feel like a woman in labor.

Obama' not evil. He may even be ethical. He's just terribly wrong. We as conservatives and libertarians need to remember that we hold our beliefs because the consequences of the crap that Obama believes are going lead to a terrible economy and social malaise.

No one can predict the future when it comes to economics. Who really knows what would happen when you pump a trillion dollars into an economy? It could be inflation. It could be deflation. Who really knows what would happen when companies continually pay more than the market wage for labor? It could create a worker surplus. It could create a worker shortage.

Feb 13, 2008 As Obama spoke; Chris Matthews: "My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often."

Nov 7, 2008 On this morning’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, Chris Matthews told Joe Scarborough, “I want to do everything I can . . . to make this presidency work. My job . . . is to make this work successfully.”

I sincerly apologise for any disrespect to David Axelrod shown in my weak attempts at humor. Mr Axelrod his has my highest respect, both for his temperament, and for his fighting skill. He has mastered the axioms to focus on message and to never defeat yourself by giving your opponent any ammunition he does not already have by your own intemperate and unnecessary words. Axelrod's instincts mentored Obama far beyond normal political advice. I would highly value having such an advisor. His skills are rarely found among men who willingly serve others.

Diamond Dick - "Meh. He's the obsequious right-hand man to our most apologetic President. Is it creepy to dislike a very public figure whose only job is to make his boss look good?"

Obama isn't at all what you describe. As for Axelrod making his boss look good; Obama does a good job of that himself...and after listening to Fleicher, Snow, Perino and the many apologists an liars perpetuate the bullshit coming from Bush and Cheney...you've got you head up your ass criticizing this guy after only a few weeks.

Just more right wing drivel that a majority of Americans aren't buying into.

It's hilarious to hear simpleton assholes like you whimpering complaints about criticism of your men. You've all had it coming for a long time, and I'm happy to know that leftist nitwits are going to spend so much of their precious time and energy defending these incompetent children against blog post comment insults. Hopefully it makes you enjoy the next 4-8 years a little less.

Yes, perhaps he will - once he's wrapped up the apology tour and established a policy of mutual respect with Iran and other countries where homosexuality and adultery are capital crimes. Presidents who apologize for their country and give moral authority to holocaust-deniers are always remembered as great.

Seven Machos said Who really knows what would happen when you pump a trillion dollars into an economy? [It could this, it could that.]

Strange perspective, that. A trillion dollars isn't being pumped into the economy, it's being sucked out of the necks of future taxpayers and sprayed like fertilizer over a mostly non-stimulating wish list of Liberal wet dreams, and the results of that are predictable. It's not theory, it's all been done before here and elsewhere and ultimately it always fails. The results of certain economic truths are inexorable and that they fail to penetrate the Liberal mind can be accounted for only by a very special form of retardation.

I say this as an unaffiliated observer, in the end I honestly don't care, they're your kids not mine, after all. As they say, "pass the popcorn," but don't bother, I make my own and I've discovered it's fantastic with Celtic sea salt and finely grated Parmigiano Reggiano.

The only thing these idiot democrats have done is set the stage for a massive inflation to come along with a very weak recovery. Carter times again. Stagflation. So when we hit Carteresque inflation along will come another Volcker to administer the harsh medicine of very high interest rates. That of course will mean even more pain and a rebound of high unemployment, another deep recession until a sensible republican comes along to the rescue like Reagan.

Obama will be a great president alright, a great disaster indeed. The one good thing that will ultimately come of this is that the next time the republicans take control it won't be RINO's or compassionate conservatives. It will be a mix of libertarians and real conservatives who will have one thing in common; the dismantling of the welfare state.